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| author |
Tessa Bagby
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Presenting... The Angry Brigade: Structural-Ideological Implications of Theatre and Media Forms as Representational Modes
| | abstract |
The Angry Brigade was a radical left-wing anarchist collective active around 1969-1972
in London, England, whose small-scale bombings in response to sociopolitical frustrations
prompted polarized perspectives that alternatively hailed them as activists or terrorists,
revolutionary visionaries or criminals. This thesis analyzes select external media representations
of the Angry Brigade and the authorities with which they were in conflict, particularly
comparing media forms rooted in established dominant ideologies and institutions with the
interpretive potential of a play script and live theatre as a representational medium. The first two
chapters provide an analysis of media representations within their respective historical and
theoretical contexts, first of mainstream newspapers and a BBC documentary film from the early
1970s, followed by close examination of the script of James Graham's 2014 play The Angry
Brigade. The third chapter synthesizes the results of the application of that analysis and
discovery in practice through a production of The Angry Brigade at Drew University in early
2022. By exploring the ideological implications of the structure and content of differing forms of
representation, and by extension, how they might influence audience reception, this study argues
that live theatre has the greatest capacity of the modes examined to challenge and deconstruct the
polarized binary of this complex politicized event.
| | school |
The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University
| | degree |
B.A. (2022)
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| advisor |
Dr. Lisa Brenner
Dr. Jeremy Blatter
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| full text | TBagby.pdf - requires Drew uLogin |
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